the start of summer 2026…

My husband, Jeff Govoni has written a book titled, FOUR JARVES STREET. Often hilarious and sometimes poignant, Four Jarves Street is more than a gossamer recollection of a 1970s Cape Cod childhood. It’s an elegy for a coastal New England that has been cleansed from our collective memory and our living landscape. Four Jarves Street is also a meditation on family and belonging, on lack and loss, and on the myths that form our first identity.

Available at Titcomb’s Bookshop in East Sandwich, Mass or on Amazon. To learn more about Jeff’s book here’s the link: https://fourjarvesstreet.com/.

“Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.”

―Martin Luther King Jr.

fluidity…

I was going to skinny dip this morning then the fog suddenly lifted as did my courage and cover. I waded in…the cool water medicine for my sore knees.

Most mornings the chatter of sea birds and bellows of the seals is a lively soundtrack to my beach clean-up. Today they were as calm as Cape Cod Bay.

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

—Jacques Yves Cousteau

I must be a mermaid, Rango.

I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

―Anais Nin

My soul is full of longing
for the secret of the sea,
and the heart of the great ocean
sends a thrilling pulse through me.

―Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

―Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

The sea is a desert of waves,
A wilderness of water.

―Langston Hughes, Selected Poems

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It’s always our self we find in the sea.”
―e.e. cummings, 100 Selected Poems

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

—Dorothea Lange